thank you for calling us together today to support your legislion to keep families together. over the weekend, a number of these stepsered on visited detention centers in new jerseyans texas and california and saw firsthand the injustice and inhumanity of it all. here we are bringing our concerns to the steps of the capitol once again. once again to say to the president of the united states, how low can you go? what is the measure of your character, your compassion, and your commitment to a better america that you would advocate a policy that rips children from the arms of their parents? to use a biblical justification -- just goes beyond when we think we have seen it all from you. the fact is, in the words of , whenhimself, he said they brought little children to jesus to place hands on them, he said let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven along to such as these. belongs to such as these. face,hallenge that we this challenge of conscience to our country, to all of us who served our country, to those of us who take an oath of offic

europe and a good new privacy legislion last month, enforcing those rules is the job of the europeanata protection board. joining us now is the woman who leads that panel, andrea jelinek . you are fromustria originally. you are used to being in a regulator position. this is bigger. how are thfit three eks going? jelinek: it was really interesting because we already have the first complaints, cross-border complaints. now, we have 19 within the whole of europe. we are sharing it with the other colleagues because we are already looking into the files. vonnie: can you tell us how many complaints you've received? jelinek: 19 cross-border. all in all, we have thousands. now at 19.r cases vonnie: what is the protocol? you have thousands from individual countries. you are in charge of cross borders. what is the protocol you've develope je it' really a big advantage for companies and individuals because either the --ividuals or the companies the data protection authorities e lv ce. there will be one leading and theoryuthority others are workiether. vonnie: can you give us an example of some o

. >> reporter: last night, texas republican senator ted cruz announced emergency legislion last night to do just that. it would keep families together as their cases proceed and increase the number of immigration judges from roughly 335 to 750. >> we can come together, we ought to all be united and say, "of urse kids should be with their parents." and if we speed up the adjucation, that solves the problem. >> reporr: but today the president appeared today to reject the option of hiring more judges. >> i don't want judges, i want border security. i don't wanna try people, in' want people coming in. do you know if a person comes in and puts one foot on our ground, it's essentially welcome to america, welcome to our country- - you never get 'em out. >> reporter: democrats insisted again that the family separations are of the president's making and within his power to stop. >> even if you believe people immigration should be halted entirely, we all should be able to agree that in the united states of america we will not intentionally separate children from their parents. we will not do th

he ensured that the child tax credit doubling and the johnson amendment repeal were in that legislion. he looks out for our pro-le and our pro family bills every single day and in addition to that, he is all over the country every week in congressal districts all over the nation, helping to raise funds and energize the grassroots for this majority. when you look at this logo, road to majority, our next speaker nl the majority leader. he is one of the reasons why we have this majority, and i am privileged to welcome back to this conference, please welcome congressman kevin mccarthy, the majority leader of the house of representatives. mrauz mrauz [applause] thanks very much. you know, if anybody questions does got creed miracles, just look at steve scalise. all right? i don't know if you know, next week will be the one-year to the day when steve was shot. i remember that day clearly. you see, steve and i have been friends for decades. steve and i were in young republicans together. he was the head of his state, louisiana, and i was the national chair and we were a team then. so the day

this bipartisan legislion will better allow the f.d.a. to obtain the data they need to more quickly approve label claims for nonaddictive pain medications. i have seen this 100 times, but we must work with our pharmaceutical partners and f.d.a. to make sure that patients across the cotry have nonaddict i have pain management options. i come from a blue collar district with ranchers where wear and tear on the body is inevitable and unrealistic to think we won't have people who need access to pain therapies. this bill is another step forward in making sure that everyone has more options to treat pain. while we are talking about nonaddictive pain medications and how important they are to break the cycle of addiction, i direct my comments to the pharmaceutical manufacturers who are developing or plan to develop drugs in this space. this i important. we need you to be innovative and adepress i have. that being said, i'm starting to be concerned regarding the cost of these drugs. let me put this in plain english, i'm worried that the people liv

of opioidg on a slate addiction legislion. guidance onacists issuing prescriptions. >> that monday night on "the communicators," talking about the end of neutrality. shiftedonversation has to legislation. at least some on the hill would like it to shift. do think it is possible to legislate this issue? fascinating. this is something congress should decide. now when congress has an opportunity to decide with the congressional review act that passed the senate and is now pending on the house, republicans say no, congress should not decide. ncc, if the chairman of the has the courage of his convictions that what he is done is right for ameca, then we will stand up to a vote in the congress. you should pickp the phone, call speaker ryan, and say schedule it for a vote in the house. let's see what the representatives of the american people say. announcer: watch "the communicators" monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. new york times columnist ross douthat talks about his book about the catholic church. then, british prim